Report: Mother, son fired upon by cops accused of stealing car

The pair involved in the Eastlake shooting were later arrested in Everett

Updated 3:57 pm, Monday, October 16, 2017

Footage from an SPD-officer-involved shooting in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood on Oct. 8, 2017.

Media: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The pair fired upon by Seattle cops during an Oct. 8 confrontation in Eastlake were a mother and son who are now jailed for vehicle theft.

Prosecutors charged them both with possession of a stolen vehicle and second-degree vehicle theft Monday. A third person may have been in the car in which they drove away from cops.

Joshua Brooks, 20, and Wendy Lee, 46, were found in Everett Friday, police reports indicate. Cops booked them into King County Jail after treatment at Harborview Medical Center for suspected gunshot wounds.

Two officers fired at the mom and son the night of Oct. 8 after a resident reported a suspicious vehicle in an alley near the 2200 block of Yale Avenue East, possibly containing a person using drugs and other handling a pistol, reports indicate.

Police determined the vehicle, a 2017 Subaru Impreza, was reported stolen Oct. 4 out of Magnolia.

As officers arrived, a woman ducked out of sight along the driver's side of the vehicle, according to the police report. A man then emerged to hastily shut the open car hood and then ran back out of view on the driver's side.

Responding cops ordered the pair to get on the ground, but instead a driver -- believed to be Brooks -- moved the car forward into Officer Kenneth Martin in what appeared to police to be "a deliberate attempt to strike Officer Martin with the stolen vehicle," court records say.

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Martin and Officer Tabitha Sexton fired at the car as it drove away, shattering at least one window before it left the scene.

Police found the car Oct. 9 on Northeast 145th Street in Seattle after a garbage collector who'd seen news coverage of the shooting spotted the vehicle in a parking lot of an apartment building, according to court documents.

Authorities found the second stolen vehicle in Everett later that same day near the home of Brooks' brother. A search of the vehicle yielded a metal lock box with a bullet hole containing a foreign currency collection and a small amount of jewelry, according to police reports. Investigators also found a fired bullet that appeared to have come from a 9mm gun. Seattle police noted that Sexton used a 9mm to fire at the car.

Officers from the Seattle and Snohomish County arrested the duo in Everett on Friday. Seattle police reported Friday that U.S. Marshals were also involved.

Cops also connected Lee's cell phone to the time and location of the shooting based on cell phone tower records.

Both suspects also had warrants for their arrest. Brooks had two warrants for vehicle theft, jail records indicate. The incident report says Lee has ties to an assault on a police officer.

Brooks allegedly told an officer to "go f**k yourself" when questioned at Harborview. He suffered two bullet wounds to the lower left of his back, which reportedly appeared consistent with the bullet holes in the back support of the driver's seat in the Subaru.

Lee's legs and lower back were "peppered" with "tiny pieces of shrapnel," according to Seattle police.

Neither person identified a third person in the car.

The backpacks they carried at the time of their arrest allegedly contained burglary and vehicle theft tools, including lock picking kits, "countless" sets of keys, shaved car keys, files and a propane torch, according to the incident report.

The Seattle Police Department continues to investigate Martin and Sexton for their conduct in the shooting.